Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-24
4 Tidy CRAFT.
Official Report Received of the Trial
Trip Of the United States
Ship Chicago.
Ten Additional Clerks 10 be Added TO
the Contest Division Of the General
Land Cffice.
Shreveport Bank Has Been DssiEHsted q
Depository Of Public Nsssys-A
Chief Clerk Sets Boanesa.
THE TRIAL TRIP,

| OF the Navy has received the Cmclal re-
port concerning the recent trial trip of
the United States ship Chicago. The
mean speed obtained during the six
| hours run was Is l knots, and the msxi-
mum speed for an hour ls.5 knots. The
mean horse power developed was 80 81,
and the maximum for an hour 81 4S The
machinery worked smoothly, and though
water was occasionally used on the
journals, the engines were not slowed
engines worked quickly and effectually.
AN AUGMENTED FORCE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. % Early next
week Comm, sioDer Ockslager will as
| sign at least ten additional clerks to the
contest division of the General Land
OGce to work exclusively upon appealed
contests now awaiting action. The con-
test force thus augmented will dispose of
fully $50 OF these CASTS 8 month, thus
making rapid gains upon the accumula-
| tion of such cases.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has
Shreveport, La, to be depository Of
| public moneys.
CHIEF CLERK FIRED.
w. II. Smith, chief clerk of the bureau
OF steam engineering his services as Chief
clerk will not De needed after January l.
| Mr.. Smith hiss been in the Navy Depart
ment twenty years.
During the present month there has
| been great increase in the number Of
to the custom of the people of this coun-
fTry sending Christmas presents Of money
| to their friends abroad. 1t is estimsted
the amount of money sent away this
month will be greater than any previous
ysar. More money is sent Great Britain
thsn any ether foreign country. List
year the amount OF money orders issued
| Tor Crest Britain was nearly $40 ,000,0 900,
an increase Of the amount over the pres
| ent year of nesrly 81 100000 Germany
came next with about So 500 900; then
Canada with about $1,000, 600, Some
S750,Qo0 were sent 10 Italy, While about
$500, 600 was transmitted to witzerland.
Meior Wright, L uisvllle, has been sp-
pointed Marshal Of the United States
Supreme cours in, place Of J. G Ncelsy.
fwbo held that position about fifteen years.
Mslor White. whose appointment will
'ake place January 2 next, is q son Of
General George Wright, United States
Navy, VINO commanded the Department
OF the Pacific during the war, and who
was lost on the steamship Brother Jons-
than in 1865, while going from San Fran
cisco to Oregon. He has also large
army connection, and was himself Of
West Point ct the beginning of the war.
In 1851 he resigned his cadetship to &C
cept al appointment as Assistant Adju-
nt-Genersl of Volunteers on the staff of
Maj or General Buell.. Re accompanied
General Buell. to the west and served
there on his staff throughout his
campaigns After the war he set
tied in Louisville and begin the prac-
tice of law. H. served foar years SIS
a member of the Kentucky Legislature
and four years as Aojutsnt- General OF
that state He was subsequently presi-
dent and general manager of the southern
exposition which President Arthur
formally opened in Louisville in 's3. AS
superb ntendent he organized the Louis
Vile Board OF Trade. He has been for
number OF years contributor to news
papers and for nearly three years wse
regular editorial writer on the Courier
Journal of Louisville.
TAKEN TO AN ASYLUM.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2s-Miss Lucy
Horton has been removed to the Insane
asylum across the eastern branch of the
Potomac. Her nervous system is
seriously, and perhaps permanently, dis
ordered. Her life here the last six years,
those who know her we'll say, has been
o1e Of many hardships. The Morgan
episode brought her into very unenviable
notoriety, and for long time che was
unable to secure any employment. There
were those who tried to induce her 10
lesSe town and begin life anew in
|ssome section where her story was
unknown. 1t was represented to
her that, being well educated, she
could make her way as teacher,
and come in time to an enjoyment of life
which she could never hope for here. Size
rejected all such counsels, however, and
mas preferred 30 bauat the scene of en-
C )unt.r which darkens her life She in
sists, like ell those similarly sffi cted,
that she is not insane, and that her pres
ence at the theater last Thursday night
was wholly accidental. she had not
thought OF going and did not know the
name Of the play until she was seated. In
asserting this she seems to reply to the
possible charge that she purposely sought
i; land to indulge in q mimic scene In some
measure akin TO the real one in her OWE
personal experience.
SOCIETY EVENT.
WASHINGTON, Dc. 2S.-A marriage an
nounced for the early part OF January, to
which the fashionable world is looking
forward with interest, is that Of Miss
Mamie O'Donnell to the Viscomte de
Bsesetiere. Miss O'Donnell, who is the
daughter Of the late Oliver O'Donnell of
B.ltimore and niece Of ex Governor John
Lee Carol of MarsIsnd, is psssing the
winter here with her aunt Mrs. Mary
Carroll Acosta, who has leased the Nc
L an house on I, near the corner Of SIX
teenth street, for the season The eldest
daughter of Hon. John Lee Carroll is the
wife Of Count Louis De KeIj oIsy, g
cousin OF the prospective groom, who Is
lieutenant in the Eighth Carassiers
The mother OF Vicomte De Basseiiere re-
sides in the chateau on the family estates |
near Bots, corfsc1ted during the first |